More Drunk Teachers

This is more common than many think:

An Arizona school teacher showed up to class drunk and continued drinking throughout the day, authorities said Thursday.

…The math teacher had a blood alcohol concentration level of .205, two-and-a-half times the legal limit for drivers. A school security officer found a bottle of vodka, a bottle of white wine and a bottle of Sunny D orange juice in her classroom. Authorities said **REDACTED** told them she took a cab to school for fear she was too inebriated to drive.

Still this is different than what I generally hear about:

**REDACTED**, of Chandler, was cited for one count of consumption of alcohol in public but could face disorderly conduct charges. After receiving her citation, **REDACTED** was released to her daughter.

…The incident is the second time **REDACTED** has been accused of being intoxicated in class. In 2011, she was fired from a Belen, New Mexico, high school for violating the district’s no-alcohol policy. Belen Schools Superintendent Ron Marquez said students in a math class reported that **REDACTED** was slurring her words and staggering. A school nurse examined her and found her to be under the influence of alcohol. She was immediately fired.

A math teacher of mine was an Alcoholic, and the school policy was that if the teacher was caught drunk at school, all they needed to do was admit they had a problem and enter an AA program, and upon completion would be reinstated as if nothing had happened.

I actually asked this of the HR Director of a former employer, and while repeat offenses would result in termination, a first offense of drunkenness on the job would be treated no differently than if an employee had done something wrong due to a mental illness.

Still in most School Unions so long as you pretend you’ll get the drinking under control, you have a free ride, and my teacher continued teaching, and getting drunk at school until he retired, with his car in storage because the police had suspended his driver’s license for DUI.

Now this article came from Christina who knows I have thing for this crap, and she was surprised that EVERY public school teacher I’ve asked has mentioned that there is an active alcoholic employed at their school. Hell the very school that the drunk I attempted to learn math from has a NEW drunk on staff.

Why? My answer is “Why not?”, I mean if you like to take a stiff slug of whiskey in your morning coffee, or belt down a few Martinis for your lunch brake, why curb it because you’re punching the clock at the local school? It’s not like you’re not still going to get raises and a nice pension at the end1

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2 Responses to More Drunk Teachers

  1. tkdkerry says:

    And it’s not like you’re actually expected to teach. ( Sorry… the cynicism is strong in me today. )

  2. Maxwell says:

    I know several teachers who conducted their classes stoned on marijuana (at least.) This was in the ’80s, when, like, that whole puritan-fascist stigma thing was still in place, man.

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